Platform Engineer - Intermediate

Description

Trade Me is one of New Zealand's most popular websites with over four million members and more than 650,000 Kiwis visiting our site every day.

You're working in the heart of engineering at Trade Me. We're responsible for building and supporting the platforms that power our company, making them efficient and enjoyable to work with and enabling Trade Me to create customer value at warp speed.

You will follow good development practices and be expected to participate in opportunities for growth and development – through training, mentoring, and asking questions of those around you. You'll look at the wider picture and take an interest in your squad work, the work around you, and how these fit into Trade Me.

Here's what you can expect from this role:

• You will work on improving our engineer's path-to-production tooling, ensuring our engineers have a seamless and resilient way to develop, test, and deploy their code to production.
• Ensuring our CI/CD pipelines are maintained and optimised to provide our engineering fast feedback loop.
• Maintenance and improvement of our development, test, and stage environments and providing them as a service to the rest of our engineering family.
• Improving and optimising our test automation suite and fitness functions on the path to production to reduce the cognitive load of our engineers.
• Develop customer intimacy by staying close to your internal customers - e.g. engineers - and reduce their pain points by building desirable pipelines & tools.
• The development and maintenance of software systems in line with Trade Me quality controls and standards.
• Step into other platform/application development teams where necessary to enable them with DevOps capability/capacity.
• Ensuring quality through the testing of developed solutions for functional and operational correctness - using unit tests, integration tests, and close collaboration with Test Analysts.
• Debugging, diagnosing, resolving, and monitoring of functional, operational, and performance issues within developed systems.
• Continual improvement of existing systems, including the identification and resolution of technical debt.
• Honest communication of progress, goals, problems, and deficiencies associated with work as well as constructive ideas and opinions on how we work and the products we produce.

What you will bring to our team:

• Tertiary qualification with a degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years of experience in similar roles with progressive increases in responsibility.
• Passion for continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and best practices for optimising them.
• Good understanding of Configuration Management tools.
• Experience building and maintaining applications in public cloud environments such as GCP and AWS.
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, and Python.
• Experience with Cloud Native application development is a bonus.
• A good team player with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
• Organised and comfortable with self-directed work; adaptable and can cope with change in a fast-moving environment.
• An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our web experience faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
• Propensity for personal motivation, initiative, adaptability and the willingness to face challenges head-on.
• Understanding of clean code principles (e.g. SOLID) with the ability to apply them in day-to-day work.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration / Delivery goals and methodology.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Apply online for this role or contact Wytske Garty for more information.

Trade Me connects Kiwi to create the life they want. Join us to shape the experience of thousands of Kiwi and grow your career from day one!

At Trade Me, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the best and have the best time doing it. We may have grown up as a company, but we still have the spirit of a startup: a hunger for growth, good vibes, good people and good times.